The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World
The Paston Treasure, a huge painting from Norwich Castle, England,
showing part of the collection of Robert Paston the Earl of Yarmouth
c.1665 features a prominent life-size image of a 12 course lute and
less prominently a bass viol, pochette, violin, trumpet and a tenor
recorder. It has been the subject of a major collaborative
investigation and the splendid exhibition that shows off the results,
including several of the surviving objects in the painting, opens today
Wednesday 14th Feb. in the Yale Center for British Art.